Helping women discover belonging, build authentic community, and live with purpose
Joyel Vandenboogart is a speaker, author, coach, and community builder passionate about helping women discover where they belong. Through her speaking, writing, and leadership, Joyel encourages individuals to pursue authentic connection, spiritual growth, and emotional wellness. She is the founder of Known Women’s Conference, a ministry dedicated to creating spaces where women can find community, purpose, and encouragement.
Drawing from her personal experiences, faith journey, and years of ministry leadership, Joyel speaks with authenticity, humor, and compassion on topics including belonging, mental health, spiritual gifts, and living with purpose. She was previously the director of Dignity Revolution. Before joining Dignity Revolution, Joyel was a second-grade teacher. Joyel joined the Navigate team fifteen years ago and loves facilitating small group discussions, coaching, and finding individuals’ gifts in order for them to understand how God created them. Joyel loves to write, kayak, walk, not run, and be with people.
Joyel lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two girls.
My mission is to help women experience the freedom of being fully known and fully loved by God and others. Through speaking, writing, coaching, and community, I create spaces where authenticity is welcomed, vulnerability is valued, and women can step out from behind perfection to live seen, known, and loved. I believe true belonging happens when we embrace who God created us to be and invite others into our real stories.
What I feature
Speaker
Inspiring women to live connected, courageous, and rooted lives in Christ. I create spaces where authenticity is welcomed, vulnerability is valued, and women can step out from behind perfection to live seen, known, and loved.
Known Conference
Known’s mission is to create an experience of fellowship, worship, and learning where women experience the joy of being Known by God and others through conversation and community. Our three pillars are strengthening faith, connecting women, and growing community.
Author
Explore Navigate Your Spiritual Gift, Walk In Your Gift, and Belong, coming soon. Explore Belong and resources designed to help women cultivate meaningful community.
Belong - Coming Soon!
Community saved my life, and it can transform yours. So many women feel unseen, lonely, disconnected, and isolated, and this book helps show Jesus with skin on. Through biblical examples, vulnerability, authenticity, service, and faith, we are able to create a community that is cultivated and God is at the center.
We are living in a time when loneliness has become an epidemic. Despite being more connected digitally than ever before, many women find themselves feeling isolated, unseen, and disconnected from meaningful relationships they are desperate for.
As Christian women, many of us desire meaningful relationships and authentic connections, yet we often find ourselves feeling isolated, overlooked, or unsure of how to build the kind of community our hearts crave. My promise to you is that within these pages, you will discover practical steps for cultivating deeper relationships, creating lasting connections, and finding your place within life-giving community.
This book is more than a guide to making friends or joining groups. You will explore different expressions of community, learn how to engage with them intentionally, and gain practical tools to move from loneliness to belonging. Whether you are seeking connection in your church, neighborhood, workplace, or everyday life, you will find encouragement and actionable ways to pursue meaningful relationships.
What makes this book different is its foundation. Rather than simply offering modern strategies for connection, we will look to the greatest model of community ever revealed: the Trinity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in perfect unity, love, honor, and relationship. Community is not merely something God created; it is who He is. Through both Scripture and lived experience, we will discover how the Trinity provides a beautiful and powerful picture of what healthy, Christ-centered community can look like.
In a culture marked by isolation, this book offers a timely and needed reminder: we were created for relationship, invited into God's family, and called to bear one another's burdens. When we embrace God's design for community, we discover that belonging is not merely something we seek; it is something we were created for.
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